The film ‘Roses Poem‘ from It’s On The Ball won in the Charity Category for ‘Health and Wellbeing’ at the 2025 Big Syn International Film Festival Awards- the world’s biggest sustainability film festival, on Friday 7th Nov, in a gala awards ceremony at Curzon Soho in London. The festival has been promoted by the Mayor of London, United Nations, British Council, You tube Kids amongst others and led by celebrated sustainability leaders and OSCAR and BAFTA winning celebrities.
A short snippet of the film will take over Europe’s biggest screen, London’s Piccadilly Lights, later this week on Friday, November 14, at 11am, to the roaring support and cheers of scores of hundreds of onlookers, filmmakers and their supporters at Piccadilly Circus.
In the form of a poem, Rose describes how her husband, Tom, was diagnosed with Testicular Cancer and how it impacted them. By telling Rose & Tom’s story, we aim to encourage men to check themselves regularly for the signs and symptoms of the disease, to report to their GP if they find anything unusual, and that if they do so there can be a positive outcome.
The founders of the festival, Dr Ragini G Roy and Dr Sourav Roy remarked, “We are happy to have created a global platform that blurs the lines between winning and losing, where communal interest takes over personal triumph- joining the dots of 360 degrees sustainability through relatable stories that are creating tangible impact for the planet and its people. ”
The Big Syn International Film Festival is the world’s biggest sustainability film festival, reaching over 50 million in 120 countries, inspiring them to act on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and make positive changes for the environment, society and economy.
BSIFF25 Grand Jury comprised of OSCAR, BAFTA and EMMY award-winners and leaders from the sustainability, business, media and policy such as George Webster (BBC), Baroness Lola Young (House of Lords), Prof. Mark Maslin (Climate Change thought-leader, UCL), Prof. Ioannis Ioannou (London Business School’s Sustainability Guru), Prof. Lindiwe Dovey (Oscar-winning filmmaker), Alexandra Genova (BAFTA award-winning filmmaker), Joseph C Stillman (EMMY award-winning filmmaker), Angela Patton (Peabody award winner), and Marcel Mettelsiefen (6X BAFTA award-winning filmmaker), selected the winners of the 2025 Big Syn International Film Festival from over 550 films and over 300 charity films received from over 120 countries.
The organiser of the festival, Big Syn Institute, is a part of the Centre for Big Synergy, a CSO of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), tasked to create a thriving, capable and responsible future for us and generations to come.